Research & Collections News

In 1955, the National Association of Manufacturers presented "Americade," a traveling exposition.

The book project I am researching involves understanding the Pennsylvania Railroad management’s fierce determination to resist, reduce, and eliminate unionism among its employees in the 1920s.

On June 2, 1977 staff from the Hagley Library recorded an interview with Mr Willard Wilson.

One common question about patent model inventors is, “Were they successful?” For some well-known inventors such as Thomas Edison, the answer is yes. For others, it isn’t so easy to determine and perhaps their patent is all that is known

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing into the early 1980s, Hagley staff interviewed 175 people from the Brandywine Valley area in Delaware, creating a phenomenal archive of daily life and work in the region going back to the late nineteenth

At the Hagley Library we collect the business records of thousands of different companies. The businesses run the gamut of being very large, still in operation, well-known companies to very small, defunct, and little known.